Francesco is a geospatial data scientist and certified GISP (GIS professional) with a cross-disciplinary background in statistics/machine learning, geospatial analysis/modeling and visualization, and programming. His professional interests include cloud and AI tools to solve global environmental and sustainability challenges, ecosystem services provision, and human-natural systems research. Some of his efforts have also been directed toward bridging the gap between science and stakeholders by improving existing visualization and display approaches to assist with forecasting, prevention, and mitigation of environmental impacts.

Currently, he is leading and coordinating the development of a suite of geo-processing tools and GIS software/web applications on telecoupling.

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The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.

Coupled Human and Natural Systems(CHANS) are integrated systems in which humans and natural components interact. CHANS research has recently emerged as an exciting and integrative field of cross-disciplinary scientific inquiry to find sustainable solutions that both benefit the environment and enable people to thrive. Visit CHANS-Net, the international network of research on coupled human and natural systems, for information and ways to engage.